PositiveThe Smart SetThe range of essays, edited by June Eric-Udorie, covers a lot of ground and at times seems like nothing holds them together, until you come back to the anchoring point that feminism and feminists have to diversify their portfolios ... As if answering, [Jessa] Crispin’s pleas [in Why I\'m Not a Feminist], Can We All Be Feminists illustrates the many ways in which feminism has failed. If Crispin’s work is a manifesto, this book is a literature review ... Can We All Be Feminists? is a useful volume because it highlights the variety of issues that require further examination and advocacy. Carving spaces that are safer for fat, immigrant, Black and Brown, disabled, nonbinary, and deviant bodies are the central concerns of the authors ... One of the things I most appreciate about Eric-Udorie’s collection is the ways in which the writers clarify the problems with mainstream feminism’s somewhat lazy sensibility, and the work that needs to be done to build a stronger network ... Despite how challenging some of these essays were to read, by way of recognizing how little I was doing myself or how little I knew about topics like contemporary immigration policies, that process was important.
